Asia

South Korean lawmakers are calling for suspending the constitutional powers of President Yoon Suk Yeol after his short-lived martial law declaration earlier this week, raising the prospects of impeachment.  Opposition...

US President-elect Donald Trump has picked former Sen. David Perdue as the US ambassador to China. A business executive before he entered politics, Perdue has lived in Singapore and Hong...

Martial law, revoked For six tense hours, South Korea experienced a self-coup brought about by an unpopular president Tuesday in Seoul. Police officers blockaded the National Assembly, and helicopters tried...

48 days to arm Kyiv The Biden administration is racing to send weapons to Ukraine before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on January 20. An estimated $725 million in arms...

After a four-year freeze, jihadist rebels in Syria seized control of the country’s largest city of Aleppo on Friday and Saturday, prompting Russian airstrikes across the city—allegedly including at hospitals...

EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal is forging a crime drama series about an all-female gang in the Asian “Wild West.” The French major is teaming with Fremantle-backed Beach House Pictures and Singapore’s Momo...

In 2019, I had a great life on paper: a stable job, boyfriend, and a basement apartment in DC. But I wanted more. At age 30, I quit, sold everything,...

Georgian film April, directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili, has won both the Best Film and Best Performance prizes at the 17th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), held in Australia. The film...

When Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned under pressure amid mass student protests in August, some of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist supporters were quick to blame—without much...

Philippine police on Wednesday filed a criminal complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security staff for assaulting security officers and disobeying their orders during an altercation at the...